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Rainbird T-Bird™ Rotor Pop-Up

Description:

Rainbird has dropped the T-Bird™ from its professional product line, but a few are still sitting on retail shelves here and there. The T-Bird™ was Rainbirds first attempt at making a water-lubricated, gear-drive rotor. It features 5 nozzles, a wiper seal, a stainless steel retraction spring, 4" pop-up height, and a radius adjustment screw. Separate sprinklers are needed for full and part-circle operation as the part circle heads can not be set to water a full circle. The part circle sprinklers adjust from 30° to 350°. A shrub model is also available that installs on a pipe above ground. I personally find it difficult to adjust the arc and suggest you be prepared to get wet when doing so, but I must admit that a number of contractors have told me I'm "all wet", they find it easy to adjust. The nozzles come in sets based on radius of throw, the 3 sets listed here are the ones that come with the retail version. I suggest you look into the better-quality 3500 & 5000 series Rainbird rotors.

Model Numbers:

T-4PC

T-4FC

T-6PC

T-6FC

T-12PC

T-12FC

Manufacturer's Performance Data:

T-Bird Performance (T-Bird™ FC, T-Bird™ PC, TBS-1)

Nozzle/Part No.

25 PSI

35 PSI

45 PSI

55 PSI

65 PSI

T22-6.5

21' - 0.63 GPM

22' - 0.65 GPM

22' - 0.66 GPM

22' - 0.67 GPM

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T22-1.0

21' - 0.90 GPM

22' - 1.00 GPM

22' - 1.00 GPM

22' - 1.00 GPM

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T22-1.3

21' - 1.20 GPM

22' - 1.30 GPM

22' - 1.32 GPM

22' - 1.35 GPM

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T22-2.0

21' - 1.90 GPM

22' - 1.90 GPM

22' - 1.80 GPM

22' - 1.80 GPM

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T22-2.5

21' - 2.40 GPM

22' - 2.50 GPM

22' - 2.65 GPM

22' - 2.70 GPM

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T22-4.0

19' - 3.40 GPM

22' - 3.80 GPM

22' - 3.70 GPM

22' - 3.60 GPM

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T30-1.0

27' - 0.90 GPM

27' - 1.00 GPM

27' - 1.00 GPM

27' - 1.00 GPM

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T30-1.3

28' - 1.20 GPM

30' - 1.30 GPM

30' - 1.40 GPM

30' - 1.50 GPM

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T30-2.0

29' - 1.68 GPM

30' - 1.99 GPM

31' - 2.00 GPM

31' - 1.85 GPM

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T30-2.5

29' - 2.20 GPM

30' - 2.60 GPM

31' - 2.90 GPM

31' - 3.00 GPM

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T30-4.0

29' - 2.77 GPM

30' - 3.31 GPM

32' - 3.75 GPM

32' - 4.02 GPM

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T30-5.0

31' - 4.20 GPM

33' - 5.00 GPM

33' - 5.50 GPM

33' - 5.80 GPM

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T40-1.5

29' - 1.5 GPM

35' - 1.8 GPM

35' - 2.0 GPM

35' - 2.2 GPM

35' - 2.4 GPM

T40-2.0

36' - 2.2 GPM

39' - 2.5 GPM

39' - 2.9 GPM

39' - 3.2 GPM

41' - 3.5 GPM

T40-3.0

36' - 3.2 GPM

41' - 3.9 GPM

41' - 4.5 GPM

43' - 5.0 GPM

43' - 5.4 GPM

T40-4.0

37' - 4.1 GPM

43' - 4.9 GPM

45' - 5.7 GPM

47' - 6.3 GPM

47' - 6.9 GPM

T40-6.0

37' - 5.4 GPM

43' - 6.7 GPM

47' - 7.6 GPM

49' - 8.4 GPM

50' - 9.1 GPM

Remember that the distance between rotor heads should never be greater than the PSI. Therefore rotors operating at 35 PSI should not be spaced farther apart than 35'.